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protectingness

protectingness noun: protectiveness.

Noun

protectingness (uncountable)

  1. protectiveness
    • How old was Isabel? According to all reasonable inferences from the presumed circumstances of her life, she was his elder, […]; nevertheless, not only did he feel his muscular superiority to her, so to speak, which made him spontaneously alive to a feeling of elderly protectingness over her; […]1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Origin of protectingness

From protecting + -ness.

Questions about protectingness

What does protectingness mean?
Protectingness means protectiveness.
What part of speech is protectingness?
Protectingness is a noun.

Words near protectingness in the dictionary

  1. protecting group
  2. protecting groups
  3. protecting power
  4. protecting powers
  5. protectingly
  6. protectingness
  7. protectins
  8. protection
  9. protection course
  10. protection courses
  11. protection money

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